Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-16

Districts-General Activity In Uncover
ing the Wealth that il Hidden-Extra-
ordinary Success Of the Tusoarors
Company.
Davis C. Turner, who has plaeers in
Mitchell Gulch, recently got q $50 nuggetin
his cleanup.
Madisonian: Messrs. Deyarmon & Red
fern have struck +. big body of ore in the
tunnel on the Bedford lode, in Ramshorn
Gulch. At the depth OF about 100 feet, the
cut had been run across the vein over
twenty feet, and no sign OF the foot wall was
yet in sight. The ore at this depth is Of
better quality than nearer the surface. and
there is more of it. The owners say
they have the biggest lead mine in Madison
County.
The Livingston Coke and Coal Company
are now disbursing among their employees
over $4,000 every month.
The Livingston Enterprise says PROF.
Fred Carr. while prospecting in the hills
north of town, found e true assure vein,
100 feet wide, carrying gypsum, gold and
silver" MIR. Carr has, by scientific reason.
ing, decided that the richest placer deposit
in The world lies in Six Mile Gulch, above
Emigrant, and that a still richer one lies at
the foot of the mountains near DilwOrth.
He has discovered more bonanzas than any
other man in Montana, but none OF them
are yet uncovered.
Boulder Sentinel. The four foot vein in
the Queen of the Hills averages $50 in sill
yer. with a fair sprinkling OF gold. The ore
taken from the Silver Star. and shipped to
Omaha, more than pays the cost OF de-
velopment. A rich strike has been made in
the Boulder hief.
Castle District, from Livingston Enter
prise-Work on the Hidden Treasure, I'M
der bond to Mr.. Esler OF Helena, will be
continued all winter. Ex-Governor Houser
has purchased Mr.. Gove's interest in the
bond on the Yellowstone. Mr.. B~urgharthas
stocked the Homestake, which is looking
we'll. Shaft houses are being builtat the Cum
berland, Alice and others for winter work. A
contract for seventy-fve feet is let on the
Black Hawk. Work is progressing on the
Judge, Hambin, Powderly, Missouri, Silver
Star, Ova and several others.
The Northwest Tribune says Hall & Mac
Donald are running bedrock fume through
their placer at Gibbonsville. One days
work with O rocker resulted in a clean UP of
$40 to the man.
Virginia New Enterprise: DR.: Rae's
electric process for saving quicksilver in
pan amalgamation is now in use in Mon.
tana, Utah. Colorado and in Dayton,
Nevada. While perfection is not yet
claimed for it, still it effects a considerable
saving of quicksilver. At the Drum Lum-
mond, in Montana, it saves $500 per
month. In Silver Reel, Utah, the saving at
a small mill is upward of ST. 200 per
month, and about the same cum is saved
at the Douglass mill, at Dayton.
The Anaconda works continue to treat
1900 to 1900 tons of ore daily.
Il r%UscARoRA.
Dillon Tribune: At Argenta. the nearest
camp to Dillon. mining operations, in the
way of extracting ore. smelling and mine
are being theoretically prose
cuted with the mast satisfactory results.
The Tuscarora Mining and Smelling Com
is scoring the best success ever at
tanned by a company in that camp or in
the county when the limited time it has
been in operation is taken into consider
alton. The furnace OF the company is
out large quantities Of silver-!ead
base bullion daily, and at the rate the
smelter is running now it's yearly product
will amount to $1,000, 900 in bullion,
WAlCH, " u TuAdIJ, olASsC ia pi0HVS 10
extraordinary output. Manager Rock
wood says the company has shipped to
the railroad within the last ninety days
!, $50 1000 pounds of bullion and ore. A
plant is necessary, and the company
the erection, next spring, OF
large works, patterned after the works OF
the Grant Smelling Company, at Omaha.
The apparently inexhaustible reserves OF
ore certainly j~ustifies the contemplated
Of putting i nlarge works and the
building OF a branch line OF railroad to Ar
genta, which would pass within a few miles
of the dump piles of the New Departure,
Kent and other large producing mines in the
Blue Wing District.
The assays from the thirty foot body o!
ore in the Tuscarora. show an average OF
1873 ounces in silver, $54 in gold, and 49k
per cent. lead.
Other mining enterprises in the Argenta
are in an equally promising condi-
ton. The Golden Era and kena properties,
justly ranked among the best mines in the
district, will soon be supplied with ample
steam power for hosting and pumping pur-
poses.
AROUND BUTTE.
The mines OF Summit Valley District tire
al! alive at present. But few good mines
are idle, and almost every one is preparing
larger operations thar ever before.
The Salisbury and North Star mines are
preparing for active operations. and will
Dor be vertible hives Of industry.
The weather continues SO favorable that
the new works at Anaconda will doubtless
be completed in December, and then the
output OF ore from Butte will jump up to
big figures.
The ore cars of the Parrot are now sup
plying tho works with immense quantities
of first-class ore.